# Supported formats

Format | Creation | Filename Extensions
--- | --- | ---
7z | X | 7z
BZIP2 | X | bz2 bzip2 tbz2 tbz
GZIP | X | gz gzip tgz
TAR | X | tar
WIM | X | wim swm esd
XZ | X | xz txz
ZIP | X | zip zipx jar xpi odt ods docx xlsx epub
APFS |  | apfs
APM |  | apm
AR |  | ar a deb lib
ARJ |  | arj
Base64 |  | b64
CAB |  | cab
CHM |  | chm chw chi chq
COMPOUND |  | msi msp doc xls ppt
CPIO |  | cpio
CramFS |  | cramfs
DMG |  | dmg
Ext |  | ext ext2 ext3 ext4 img
FAT |  | fat img
HFS |  | hfs hfsx
HXS |  | hxs hxi hxr hxq hxw lit
iHEX |  | ihex
ISO |  | iso img
LZH |  | lzh lha
LZMA |  | lzma
MBR |  | mbr
MsLZ |  | mslz
Mub |  | mub
NSIS |  | nsis
NTFS |  | ntfs img
MBR |  | mbr
RAR |  | rar r00
RPM |  | rpm
PPMD |  | ppmd
QCOW2 |  | qcow qcow2 qcow2c
SPLIT |  | 001 002 ...
SquashFS |  | squashfs
UDF |  | udf iso img
UEFIc |  | scap
UEFIs |  | uefif
VDI |  | vdi
VHD |  | vhd
VHDX |  | vhdx
VMDK |  | vmdk
XAR |  | xar pkg
Z |  | z taz
ZSTD |  | zst tzst

## ZIP

7-Zip creates ZIP compatible archives. 7-Zip supports the following ZIP compression methods:

- 0 - Store
- 1 - Shrink (decompression only)
- 6 - Implode (decompression only)
- 8 - Deflate
- 9 - Deflate64
- 12 - BZip2
- 14 - LZMA
- 93 - ZSTD (decompression only)
- 95 - xz (decompression only)
- 98 - PPMd
- 99 - WinZip AES

Files compressed with other ZIP compression methods can't be extracted by the current version of the 7-Zip. But these supported methods are the most popular today, and therefore 7-Zip can decompress most ZIP archives. To extract files compressed with non-supported methods you must use some other ZIP utility.

7-Zip supports the Zip64 extension of ZIP format.

## LZH

7-Zip supports LZH archives only for listing, browsing and decompressing. 7-Zip supports -lh0-, -lh4-, -lh5-, -lh6- and -lh7- methods.